System tray management

Bug #1309589 reported by Eric Davis
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
xchat-indicator (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

When installing the application Bomgar, it by default it has a system tray icon in literally every linux distro imaginable, but not in Ubuntu 14.04 because there's no 'indicator' for it and no way to edit it via dconf-editor.

In 12.04 we could use dconf-editor to determine what icons appeared in the system tray, we can not with 14.04. Despite installing xchat-indicator and enabling 'minimize to system tray', all it does is create a launch button under the 'Messages' icon, it doesn't actually minimize to the system tray. So if you minimize your XChat, it's lost and gone.

The system for managing the system tray in 12.04 wasn't great, it was workable, but in 14.04 it's absolutely absurd. There's thousands of applications with system tray icons that have no 'indicator'. Many applications minimize to system tray and without that icon the user is just out of luck as they can't get their application back.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: xchat-indicator 0.3.11-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Apr 18 11:06:19 2014
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-17 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
SourcePackage: xchat-indicator
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Eric Davis (edavis-j) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in xchat-indicator (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Victor Mendonça (victorbrca) wrote :

I can confirm the same issue.

$ dpkg -l xchat xchat-indicator
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==================-==============-==============-==========================================
ii xchat 2.8.8-7.1ubunt amd64 IRC client for X similar to AmIRC
ii xchat-indicator 0.3.11-0ubuntu amd64 XChat Indicator Plugin

$ uname -a ; cat /etc/issue.net
Linux Desktop 3.13.0-39-generic #66-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 28 13:30:27 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS

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Ken VanDine (ken-vandine) wrote :

xchat-indicator provides messaging menu integration (indicator) for xchat. It has nothing to do with the lack of the old system tray for applications that don't provide indicators.

Changed in xchat-indicator (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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Ciprian Barbu (ciprian-barbu) wrote :

You might want to revisit this, I get the indicator for pidgin showing but not the one for xchat. It looks like a bug to me.

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